Power and imagination : city-states in Renaissance Italy by Lauro Martines(
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)72
editions published
between
1979
and
2005
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
1,828 WorldCat member
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worldwide
The Italian Renaissance, writes Lauro Martines, came forth in two stages. The first extended from the eleventh century to
about 1300, the second from the late thirteenth to the late sixteenth centuries. In the first period, social energies - economics,
politics, a vibrant demography - were primary and foremost; in the second, cultural energies seemed to dominate. In Power
and Imagination, Lauro Martines rethinks the evolution of the city-state in Renaissance Italy and recasts the conventional
distinction between 'society' and 'culture'. He traces the growth of commerce and the evolution of governments; he describes
the attitudes, pleasures and rituals of the ruling elite; he seeks to understand the period's towering works of the imagination
in literature, painting, city planning and philosophy - not simply as the creations of individual artists, but as the formal
expression of the ambitions and egos of those in power

April blood : Florence and the plot against the Medici by Lauro Martines(
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)56
editions published
between
2003
and
2015
in
7
languages
and held by
1,452 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The failed assassination doomed the Pazzi. Medici revenge was swift and brutal - plotters were hanged or beheaded, innocents
were hacked to pieces, and bodies were put out to dangle from the windows of the government palace. All remaining members
of the Pazzi clan were forced to change their surname, and every public sign or symbol of the family was destroyed. April
Blood offers us a fresh portrait of Renaissance Florence, where dazzling artistic achievements went side-by-side with violence,
cruelty, and bare-knuckle politics. At the center of the canvas is the figure of Lorenzo the Magnificent - poet, statesman,
connoisseur, patron of the arts, and ruthless ʺboss of bosses.ʺ This extraordinarily vivid account of a turning point in the
Italian Renaissance is bound to become a lasting work of history. Book jacket

The social world of the Florentine humanists, 1390-1460 by Lauro Martines(
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)41
editions published
between
1960
and
2017
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English
and held by
988 WorldCat member
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Lauro Martines' exhaustive search of manuscript material in the state archives of Florence is the basis for a fascinating
portrayal of representative humanists of the period. The Social World of the Florentine Humanists explores the wealth, family
tradition, civic prominence, and intellectual achievements of these individuals while assessing the attitudes of other Florentines
towards them. Martines demonstrates that humanists tended to be wealthy educated men from important families, challenging
long-held assumptions about the status of humanisits in that society. First published in 1963, this groundbreaking study provides
a detailed picture of the social structure of Florence in the Quattrocento. Martines's work influenced a generation of scholars
and illuminated a complex and multifaceted world

Fire in the city : Savonarola and the struggle for Renaissance Florence by Lauro Martines(
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)25
editions published
between
2006
and
2007
in
English
and held by
960 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A gripping and beautifully written narrative that reads like a novel, Fire in the City presents a compelling account of a
key moment in the history of the Renaissance, illuminating the remarkable man who dominated the period, the charismatic Savonarola.
Lauro Martines, whose decades of scholarship have made him one of the most admired historians of Renaissance Italy, here provides
a remarkably fresh perspective on Girolamo Savonarola, the preacher and agitator who flamed like a comet through late fifteenth-century
Florence. The Dominican friarhas long been portrayed as a dour, puritanical

Furies : war in Europe, 1450-1700 by Lauro Martines(
Book
)12
editions published
between
2013
and
2014
in
English
and held by
777 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
We think of the Renaissance as a shining era of human achievement, yet it was also an age of constant, harrowing warfare.
Armies, not philosophers, shaped the face of Europe as modern nation-states emerged from feudal society. Martines captures
the dark reality of the period in a gripping narrative mosaic, putting us on the front lines of battle, and on the streets
of cities under siege, to reveal what Europe's wars meant to the men and women who endured them

Lawyers and statecraft in Renaissance Florence by Lauro Martines(
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)21
editions published
between
1968
and
2016
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
679 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Lawyers at work-in diplomacy, in relations with the Church, in territorial government, in the formulation of policy, in administration,
and in the political struggle provide the unifying theme in this analysis of the exercise of political power in Renaissance
Florence. Professor Martines studies the actual techniques of government, the hidden legal and constitutional questions raised
by everyday affairs, and the responses of individual lawyers to the pressures of politics. He shows precisely how Florentine
lawyers, both republicans and oligarchs, viewed the state. An appendix lists and briefly characterizes the some 200 lawyers
who practiced in Florence during the period 1380 to 1530. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses
the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist
of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting
them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905

Strong words : writing & social strain in the Italian Renaissance by Lauro Martines(
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)10
editions published
between
2001
and
2003
in
English
and held by
416 WorldCat member
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Neighborhood voices in poetry - The verbal web of patronage - Prayer in the urban setting - Love and history : men against
women - Suicide of a poet - Alienation : the outsider as poet - Cruelty in the community - Seduction and family space - Poetry
as political memory - Crisis in the generation of 1494

Loredana : a Venetian tale by Lauro Martines(
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)10
editions published
between
2004
and
2013
in
English
and held by
387 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Loredana and Orso are passionate lovers in 16th century Venice and they are determined not to be separated. Loredana is from
a rich and nobile family and her lover is not. They are both hunted down by the police. Their romance is chronicled thru a
rich array of letters, confessions, secret-police proceedings, a diary and a family chronicle, along with an astonishing tale
of politics, love, lust and religious incandescence

Scourge and fire : Savonarola and Renaissance Florence by Lauro Martines(
Book
)17
editions published
between
2006
and
2012
in
English
and held by
177 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
In the Florence of the 1490s, Girolamo Savonarola's charismatic sermons mingled the fervour of religion with the ardour of
republican politics. He attacked the Church for its greed and the Medici for their despotism. He was excommunicated and finally
hanged. This is his biography

The politics of law in late medieval and Renaissance Italy : essays in honour of Lauro Martines by Lawrin D Armstrong(
Book
)8
editions published
between
2011
and
2016
in
English
and held by
134 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
Essays by leading historians examine the professional, social, and political functions of Italian jurists from the thirteenth
to the late fifteenth centuries. The volume also examines the use of emergency powers, the critical role played by jurists
in mediating the rule of law, and the adjudication of political crimes. The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance
Italy provides both an assessment of Martines' pioneering archival scholarship as well as fresh insights into the interplay
of law and politics in late medieval and Renaissance Italy."--Pub. desc

Not in God's image : women in history by Julia O'Faolain(
Book
)14
editions published
between
1973
and
1979
in
English
and held by
95 WorldCat member
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worldwide
Extracts from writings mostly by or about women, from Ancient Greece to the mid-19th century. Contains on p. 49-51 a extract
from Plutarch's 'Dialogue on Love', in which the author debates over the relative merits of homosexual and heterosexual love
were commonplace. Here Protogenes, who believes that women are incapable of true feeling or intellect, argues that love is
almost by definition homosexual. His friend Daphnaeus, who seems to represent Plutarch, vehemently disagrees. Also on p. 193-4
Christina de Pisan and on p. 329-30 Mary Wollstonecraft

Potere e fantasia : le città stato nel Rinascimento by Lauro Martines(
Book
)9
editions published
between
1980
and
2013
in
Italian and English
and held by
38 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
The great Italian city-states: Venice, Florence, Milan, and the others. The particular nature of their history and culture
through the five centuries of their emergence, magnificent flowering, and twilight is brilliantly explored in terms of the
internal shifts of economic, social, and political power'by violence, by manipulation, by the gradual pressures of changing
circumstance. And here are the life and culture and works of imagination that were created as the merchants and guilds wrested
dominion from the ancient nobility, from the first struggles against the Holy Roman Empire in the twelfth century through
the rich cultural blaze and political exhaustion of the sixteenth. Lauro Martines, Professor of History at UCLA, has drawn
together and chronicled in a single fluent narrative all the explosive energies, the social strife, the civil disorder, the
political violence, the economic transformations, the crises of control, the religious fervor and corruption, and the spectacular
achievements of art and intellect that made and defined the city-states

Social world of florentine humanists, 1390-1460 by Lauro Martines(
Book
)4
editions published
between
1963
and
2016
in
English
and held by
3 WorldCat member
libraries
worldwide
A picture of representative humanists of the Quattrocento, based on manuscript material in the Florence state archives.Originally
published in 1963.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library
is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905